Mexican officials in Cuidad Juarez, across the border from El Paso, Texas, found more than they bargained for when they raided a house for drugs in the La Cuesta section of the city earlier this month. As of March 14, they had found 33 bodies – many of them dismembered – in the home’s backyard. […]
Brazil: Blogging helps the police to mobilize and protest
by Paula Góes Lieutenant Melquisedec Nascimento, a blogger since April 2007,reports [pt] that his house was visited by four officials from the Police Internal Affairs Department, a special force that investigates crimes committed by police officers. According to him, this visit followed Saturday’s order from Rio de Janeiro Governor Sergio Cabral that the blogger be arrested immediately. Cláudio […]
BJP to probe Tenkasi murders in Tamil Nadu
The State BJP leader Mr.L.Ganesan,in Tamil Nadu, has accused the ruling DMK government of political inaction over the killing of 4 BJP and Hindu Munnani leaders in the Tenkasi area for the past 2 months.He alleged that the terrorists outfit has killed the BJP and the Hindu Munnani leaders and so far the government […]
Gov’t agents are used and abused
Being a public servant is no joke. Apart from having low salaries for rendering service to the public, government employees, including law enforcement agents and the military, are being used and abused by top government officials to retaliate against those who tried to implicate the former for wrong-doings in the government service. That’s the trade-off […]
Blaze takes 7 lives in Delhi Slum
Seven people were charred to death and about 300 shanties devastated when a chief fire broke out in a slum huddle near Lahori gate in north Delhi. 30 fire tenders worked for about three hours to douse the blaze, alleged to be caused by a fire lit by slum dwellers near Lahori gate to fight […]
court watch kashmir 2007
The courts in the year 2007 were abuzz with cases of fake encounters, sex scandal and many other cases related to human rights abuse. The first major event was the charge sheet presented against senior police officials found involved in the infamous fake encounter case of Abdul Rahman Padder and others. These disclosures sent shock […]